With Friends Like These.......................?

[ToraToraTora]

"intellectually arrogant, emotionally inept and politically maladroit".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-45147656

[Zacs-Master]

He should come off the fence and say how he really feels.

[Peter Pedant]

the problem with the politicians in the North is that the pool of hopefuls is not much bigger than Greater Mnchester ( 6 m )

and the elected politicians are not much good at running a city ( like Manchester ) let alone a country

[Gromit]

Murphy took the Labour Party from having 41 Scottish Labour MPs is Parliament to having just 1. He himself lost his own seat. So he knows all about being politically maladroit.

[Khandro]

//Murphy took the Labour Party from having 41 Scottish Labour MPs is Parliament to having just 1. //

The man deserves a medal!

[Gromit]

Strange answer PP.

You think a 6 million pool of hopefuls is insignificant? The City of Manchester (pop. 520K) seems to be reasonably well run. It certainly isn’t in the mess that Northamptonshire finds itself in.

[ichkeria]

“Intellectually arrogant” is unfair.
“Intellectually bereft” is more accurate.

[Peter Pedant]

// The City of Manchester (pop. 520K) seems to be reasonably well run.// er I live there .....
Gtr Manchester area is 3.5 m

when s/o said Gtr Mank and the 'pule had enough people ( 6m) to form its own country - somone DID say, what an odd thing to say.....

[Peter Pedant]

//Who I say who removed my post,it was a joke //

you could flag this by writing something like [joke]
or if you are recycling a fave one liner
"I went to Scotland once - but it was closed"
you cd add [with thx to W C Fields]